2011 OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants

Graduate Students:  Apply now for a 2011 OAH-IEHS Higham Travel Grant.

OAH and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) have created a fund to award travel grants in memory of John Higham (1920-2003), past president of both organizations, and a towering figure in immigration, ethnic, and intellectual history.

Travel grants of $500 are awarded to three (3) graduate students each year. Funds are to be used by graduate students toward costs of attending the OAH-IEHS Annual Meeting. The successful candidates will have a preferred area of concentration in American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or American Intellectual history.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Required Information: Current and permanent addresses; educational background; degrees achieved and expected; current institution attending; current status; travel funds from other sources; publications and papers presented.

Qualifications: Minimum preferred: ABD.

Travel Funding: Applicants will need to indicate if other travel monies will be made available.

Required Statement: Applicants will be required to include a short statement of no more than 500 words about how they envision attending the Annual Meeting will help prepare them for a career in history.

Additional Considerations: The committee will seek some balance by gender, region of country, and type of university (e.g., major research university, and second tier).   One complete copy of each application should be sent to each committee member listed below and received by December 1, 2010.

Please note that it is the policy of the OAH to honor those applicants who have submitted their applications on or before the stated deadline date. Applications which are not received by close of business on the deadline date will not be considered.

Elliott Barkan (Committee Chair)
24187 Augusta Drive
Corona, CA 92883-4147
[Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, California State University, San Bernardino]

Lon Kurashige
Departments of History and American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California
3520 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034

Dominic A. Pacyga
10123 South Wood Street
Chicago, IL 60643
[Affiliation:  Columbia College/Chicago]

Recipients will be notified after February 1, 2011.  Grants will be given to student when he/she attends the 2011 OAH-IEHS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, March 17-20. 

List of Past Winners

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